Before Steven Spielberg was THE Steven Spielberg, he was a young 22-year-old TV director working under contract for Universal Studios. In the early 1970s, directing TV was not nearly as glamorous a ...

For more than 40 years, audiences have enjoyed Columbo, featuring a shabby and fumbling, yet thoroughly brilliant, detective as the title character. Amelie Hastie, a scholar of film and television and ...

If you're unfamiliar with Columbo, the classic mystery show had a simple premise. While most shows in that genre were focused on unraveling the clues to determine who had committed a murder, Columbo ...